"War is never the way to go? Sure about that? Hitler would have appreciated that concept! Thank God there are countries like the US that do not shy away from a problem and wilt like a flower when trouble arises." - Ace
That was a very very different situation. If you remember right, the Axis powers had invaded Poland, France, North Africa, Spain, and practically all of Europe.. not to mention fire bombing downtown London. I agree that we should have taken much sooner.. but don\'t you see the slight difference between Hitler invading Poland and Saddam "hinting" at maybe possibly having weapons that he\'s not supposed to? There is no hard evidence.. lots and lots of speculatory evidence.. some very blatant.. but nothing solid. This stuff, in a civil matter, would be thrown out of court. Yet we want the world to accept it as legitimate grounds to go into a war which could possibly destabilize all of the middle east as well southern Asia? Come on.. Like Bossieman said. We don\'t need to prove this to the Neutrals or to our Allies.. circumstancial evidence will work for them. We need to convince our ENEMIES of this.. which is going to be very very hard to do. What we\'re doing is letting "our" intelligence do the talking.. and to them.. we\'re not trustworthy. We need something rock solid that NO-ONE, no matter the alignment to the US can refute. We\'re lacking that.
That\'s what we had durring the Cuban Missle Crisis... another point of history that was brought up. Russian diplomats sat in the UN for weeks bashing the US and painting us as villans who are bringing the world to the brink of disaster... and the world sat by and did the same thing they are now. Asking why. We are faced with a similar situation now (albiet, the threat to the US is much less at the present time.. but will only grow with unfounded military action) and we do not have solid evidence.. we do not have the smoking gun we had then.. and yet we ask the world to support us in a move that has the potential to wreak untold havoc on the third world, as well as the rest of the world.
Come on.. I want to see Saddam ousted as much as the next guy. I believe we must do something.. but not military action. Not at this time. Kennedy\'s millitary think tank saw only one recouse in the Cuban Missle Crisis.. a surgical strike which would eliminate the missles.. but the reprecussions of that action would be potentially devistating. What did Bobby Kennedy say? Not an exact quote, but "There has to be another way, and if it\'s not presenting itself it means we haven\'t thought hard enough yet."
All I\'m saying is that there IS another way, even without evidence, to diffuse this situation. We just haven\'t thought hard enough yet. Weither it\'s because of ulterior motives, 9/11 righteousness, or top millitary brass looking for an excuse to try out their new toys in an actual war.
Yes, some wars are unpreventable.. but I see absolutely NO reason to think that is the case this time.
